Our records cover the history of the Second World War including the roles of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Find out more about the Holocaust and life on the Home Front.
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Adolf Hitler
Was Hitler a 'passionate lunatic'?
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Belsen concentration camp 1945
What did the British find when they entered Belsen concentration camp?
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British Response to V1 and V2
How did Britain respond to the threat of attack by missiles in 1943?
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Caribbean history in photographs
What can these photographs tell us?
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Empire Windrush: Life for Migrants in the 1940s and 50s
What do these documents reveal about life for Caribbean migrants to Britain in the 1940s and 1950s?
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Evacuation to Canada
How much care was really taken?
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Evacuation to Shropshire
What happened to children who were sent away?
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From Outbreak to Archive: Tales of Public Health
What do the documents reveal about how government and society dealt with public health in the past?
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Gordon Ford’s story
What was it like to be an airman in the Second World War?
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Government posters
How did Britain encourage people at home to help win the war?
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Hitler assassination plan
How did the British plan to kill Hitler?
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Holding History
What is 'The National Archives'?
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The Chinese Civil War
Why did the fighting between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party happen?
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The Home Front
How did people prepare for the war at home?
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Wartime Propaganda
How did Britain try to keep the support of West African peoples?
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Who was Noor Khan?
What can documents reveal about her role during the Second World War?